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Bruner's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Coghlan (DD-606)] returned briefly to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii before setting out for...

One time that scared William Beaman happened when the USS Flasher (SS-249) was firing electric torpedoes. They were...

When Arthur Smith was finishing up in the Mediterranean, they had Mark 8 torpedoes [Annotator's Note: Bliss-Leavitt...

Jack D. Samuelson continued at Occidental [Annotator’s Note: he was a freshman at Occidental College in Los Angeles,...

Gene Alair went in and out of Guadalcanal many times. Nothing really stands out to him about it other than he lost a...

Frederick Ellis had a roommate at Tulane [Annotator's Note: Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana] named Eddie...

Arthur Smith says that when they were sinking Japanese luggers [Annotator's Note: slang for cargo ships], the often...

Wesley Waggoner had a recommendation to join the Navy SeaBees or Construction Battalion [Annotator’s Note: Waggoner and...

Gene Alair went into Lingayen Gulf [Annotator's Note: Invasion of Lingayen, Philippines, 6 January 1945], the spot...

Frederick Ellis was sent to Hollandia, New Guinea. He recalls that they were not slated to go on the Leyte [Annotator's...

After he had joined the Navy, it was a shock for Ben Ray Bost to leave home and get into uniform. Everything was free...

Paul Sartori Jr. went home on leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] and then went...

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